6.15.2007

While working on a Race & Stereotypes project for one of my Asian American Studies classes, one of my group mates forwarded me some samples of the Secret Asian Man comic strip to use for our presentation. The description of the the strip from the official site reads:

Secret Asian Man is a weekly comic strip that is currently printed across the country in cities such as Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta as well as in papers in Silicon Valley, Northern California and several national ethnic media papers. The comic strip is an often brutally honest commentary on the state of race relations in America.

They're pretty damn funny. Check 'em out whenever you have the chance.

Double Consciousness is a term that comes from the pen of W. E. B. Du Bois which was made popular in his book The Souls of Black Folk. For Du Bois it meant “always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” and of having two identities, one being American and the other being a person of color. “Two warring ideals in one dark body.” The title is also a pun on the fact that the two blog founders/editors are of different ethnicities which obviously effects the way they perceive the world. Jack Stephens is white (three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Guatemalan) and C is Pilipino. Despite this fact they are both unified in their thought on critiquing white privilege in American society and in combating its effects on people of color.